Re: Lord Muck

: The term I'm familiar with is Lord High Muckety-Muck which I'm guessing might be related. According to a recent Word of the Day on Merriam-Webster's site http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Mar.07.2008 it's from a Chinook jargon term.

'Muckety-muck' and Lord Muck do mean the same thing, but the OED places 'muckety-muck' as a US phrase from the 1920s and cites 'Lord/Lady Muck' from a little earlier - around 1900, and of Australian origin.